The Cloud originally just meant servers on someone else's network; it came from flowchart diagrams in the 70s.
I worked at a classic "cloud" providing company. We called "the fog". That was more descriptive of the seemingly non-deterministic nature of the overall system(s).
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I worked at a classic "cloud" providing company. We called "the fog". That was more descriptive of the seemingly non-deterministic nature of the overall system(s).